mission military offensive in lebanon where ground troops are also now engaged there as well issuing adal evacuation orders for lebanese villages in southern lebanon, raising questions about how much more that operation will expand. and in addition to that, of course, we're still waiting for the israeli retaliation for that barrage of ballistic missiles fired by iran earlier this week, the israeli government vowing it will retaliate, but we don't yet know when or how severe that retaliation will be jeremy diamond. >> thank you. >> ben wedeman is in beirut. ben, what have you seen overnight? >> well overnight we saw victor more than 30 israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of beirut. and in fact, in just the last few minutes, yet another strike we were hearing that israeli drones overhead, which mitch normally pre-staged is a possible israeli strikes. so basically every hour since the morning, there has been a strike on the southern suburbs now, normally israel gives a warning of strikes coming, basically evacuation orders for specific buildings and as ai said before they hit at least